Chapter one of my really dark story.

Chapter 1: It's Happening...

Link sat in his house, chronicalling his adventures over the past months.

He had trouble concentrating.

He was sure that something was about to happen. The Ordon goats were unusually quiet and still, the cuccoos didn't squawk, etc. In essence, Hyrule was finally silent.

Link sensed a disturbance in the air at one moment a few months ago. Zelda had sensed it as well. Midna had teleported to say that strange things were happening to the animals of the Twilight Realm.

Link rubbed his eyes, sleepily. It was almost midnight. Ilia came in to see him about three hours earlier and said that something was wrong with Epona.

"She's acting like there's no tomorrow or something. She won't stop kicking and such. What's going on with her?"

He put his book away and went up to the hammock he slept in.

Zelda sat in the throne room of the castle. There was something strange going on. She had sent scouts to investigate the cracks in the desert. Instead of being dark and dead, they were bright and alive. Fire could be seen plain as day. What's worse, she sent another group out to investigate and only one came back, saying that numerous fissures had swallowed the soldiers alive.

She rubbed her eyes. What did it all mean? The animals not doing anything, the winds ranging from a mild breeze to a pure maelstrom in less than five minutes, and above all else, Lake Hylia becoming uninhabitable. The Zora had fled to Snowpeak, which had melted. The world was heating up and incinerating itself.

A bright flash illuminated the sky. Zelda jumped from her throne to see a meteor fly in the direction of the forest.

Link saw the flash and ran out to see what was happening. He saw a meteor hit the forest and a shockwave of power flew from it. His house was destroyed, Epona was blasted into a wall, and the village was falling apart. People ran out, making a huge commotion to see what had happened.

They saw that Rusl and Uli with Colin and baby Auru were safe, as were Haunch and Sara with Beth. Malo and Talo crawled from the wreckage of their house, bleeding but not badly. Their mother had been hurt, as had their father. Fado began trying to unearth them from the wreckage. Mayor Bo and Ilia were unharmed.

Then Link heard a loud Crack!

A fissure split towards Bo's house. It split to about fifty feet, causing Link to stumble and fall about three yards from the crack.

He heard screams and the sounds of people falling. He heard Ilia screaming "Father!!!!" and Rusl shouting "Uli!!!!"

He got up to see Uli holding onto the side of the edge of the fissure and Rusl trying to help her up, but the quaking wasn't helping. Link grabbed her other hand and helped her up. There was no sign of Bo. Ilia was crying uncontrollably by the side, so he feared the worst.

Zelda saw as a fissure split through Castle Town, taking many people with it. Telma's Bar, Jovani's house, the Hot Spring Water stand, all swallowed up.

Even the outer fence of the castle had broken open, causing soldiers to fall to their doom.

Zelda was overcome by all the destruction. It felt like the end of the world was coming. She saw another meteor fly down directly towards her castle. She gasped and tried to flee, even though death was inevitable.

She felt an arm grab her and felt the sensation of being disintegrated.

She appeared in the Twilight Realm.

Midna let go of her.

"I deduced the truth before you were destroyed." she said breathlessly.

"Whats going on?"

"The Apocalypse. The world is destroying itself."

"Wha-!?"

"Yeah. According to legend, the Apocalypse would be so bad that only one in seven people would survive it. And of those precious few, even more would die soon after because of the 'reshaping of the world'."

"But if it's the apocalypse, wouldn't the world truly be destroyed?"

"Not this one. Only one of seven people will survive the first wave of death, then even more will die due to the reshaping."

"Is that what's going on?"

Midna sighed.

"The Apocalypse... Why did it have to happen now?"

Link felt the collision of another meteor as it hit the castle. His first thought was if Zelda survived. Then he felt another wave of power. That wave pushed many villagers into the chasm.

When the dust settled, he, Ilia, Colin, Malo, and Fado were the only ones left.

Malo ran to the side, his face tear-streaked.

Fado shouted at him.

"Is this the apocalypse or something!?"

Link sighed.

"Yep... It's happening."

Now for the "reshaping of the earth..." R&R